Vote Jeremy Drinkall – the Anticapitalist candidate
Jeremy Drinkall is standing in Vauxhall for the millions, not the millionaires. A teaching assistant at a local school and active trade unionist with Lambeth Unison, Jeremy has had enough of the hypocrisy of the mainstream parties. A committed trade unionist and a member of the socialist Workers Power group, Jeremy will campaign for working class people every step of the way.
Like you, Jeremy has had enough of seeing big bonuses for the fat cats, while real wages go down, and gas and electric bills go up.
Jeremy believes change can happen if we fight in the workplaces and on the streets to resist every attack on jobs, pay, services and conditions – and link up every campaign into a powerful movement to change the whole way society is run.
That’s why Jeremy’s platform brings two things together:
For the millions, not the millionaires
The rich capitalists should pay for the crisis their system caused.
They can start by giving us back our money – the billions of pounds of ordinary working class taxpayers’ money that was used to fund massive city bonuses at RBS, HSBC and Barclays.
This means the government should take over the banks and seize their profits and assets. A single state bank could be created, run democratically by working class people, to direct resources to where they are really needed.
Then instead of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, we’d have a war on poverty here in Britain. The money and wealth stolen by the capitalists could be used to pay for hospitals, schools, colleges, nurseries and childcare. The rich would be forced to pay very high taxes to fund massive improvements in housing, education and healthcare.
We could create three million new jobs, build a million council homes and guarantee decent pensions for all in old age.
The main parties tell us we can’t afford to do that. They say, “The money isn’t there, Britain’s bankrupt.”
This is a lie – the money is there. The rich invest it in their private jets, in their mansions and holiday homes, in investment funds and shares. Lots of them don’t even pay tax like the rest of us – they have “non-dom” status, which means they don’t pay UK tax even though they live here, like Lord Ashcroft, one of the leaders of the Tories.
The only reason they can live like this is because they exploit the rest of us. They own the call centres, the supermarkets, the factories, where we work – it’s our work they profit from. It’s our money – we want it back.
Workers’ control, not bankers’ control
Under capitalism the whole economy is under bankers’ control. They get a bailout to save their bonuses; they place massive bets in markets that destabilise the system for everyone; they decide the fate of businesses and whole economies, when millions of jobs are at stake.
Let’s do away with the system of bankers’ control – and replace it with a system of workers’ control.
All publicly owned banks, services and industries should be controlled democratically and run by the workers themselves. Why should RBS go on acting just the same when it’s 80 per cent owned by the government? We need democratic control of all public services, utilities and enterprises, organised from below with elected committees.
When any firm says it “can’t afford” to keep workers, we should demand they open the books to a workers’ inquiry and share out the work on full pay.
The Anticapitalist alternative
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